Golf scores are expressed as numbers based on the standard number of times at bat, and there is a term for the number of strokes separately.
When hitting less than the standard stroke, a new name is used to express the score.
This is related to golf history, which is derived from bird, and in 1903, while six amateurs were playing at a golf course in eastern Philadelphia, a player reportedly hit his second shot with Wood No. 2 at a 470-yard long hole to bring him on to the pin’s 6 yards.
Another player who saw the scene said, “The shot flew like a bird” (That’s bird of shot), and he started calling the score one stroke better than par birdie.
1. “Buddy”
Buddy means completing a hole one less than par.
For example, if you put it in the par-4 hole at 3 times, if you put it in the par-3 hole at 2 times, it is called a birdie, and it is calculated and recorded as -1 strokes in the case of par-4, and 3 strokes in the case of par-3, it is recorded as 2 strokes in the case of par-3.
2. “PAR”
Scores are scored based on how many times a ball should be shot in a hole. Par, which refers to this standard number of strokes, comes from the stock term Par Figure, which usually means face value. ‘Pa’ is a Latin word that has both the meaning of equivalence and excellence.
For example, if you put it in the par-4 hole at 4 times, it is called “par” if you put it in the par-3 hole at 3 times, and it is calculated and recorded as 0 strokes, and it is recorded as 4 for par 4 and 3 for par 3.
3. “Eagle”
This article refers to completing a hole with two strokes (-2) less than par, which, like buddy, is derived from “eagle,” which means bird, and was first used by American golfer Sheardan Acre in the 1920s.
An eagle is also used when a golfer makes a shot at three par holes. In particular, when a golfer makes a hole-in-one with one shot, the player is called a hole-in-one. According to the PGA, the probability of making a hole-in-one is one 12,000th, which is something that ordinary golfers cannot do once in their lifetime.
4. “Albatross”
Albatross refers to hol-in with three fewer pars than the standard par (par).
The term is presumed to be derived from the albatross, a bird with large wingspan and long body length, among Western birds. The albatross is a bird that is holed-in three times less than par, but it is unlikely to come out, so it was named after this bird.
At the U.S. LPGA Pure Silk-Bahamas Classic in January 2016, Korea’s Jang Ha-na set a record as the first hole-in-one albatross in LPGA history when her first tee shot went into the hole cup at the par-4 hole 200 meters away.
Australia’s Lee Min-ji also made a hole-in-one at the Kia Classic in March of the same year, scoring the second hole-in-one albatross in LPGA history when she made a hole-in-one at a 221-meter par-4 hole.
5. “Condor”
Condor is the largest bird of prey on Earth living in the Andes Mountains of South America, and in golf, it is -4 strokes more than the standard number of strokes.
In golf history, only four people are known to have recorded condors so far, of which the longest-distance condor record is held by an American named Mike Klan.
With a par-5 hole-in-one, the Clan hit a tee shot on the 9th hole, a 473-meter par-5 hole at the Green Valley Ranch Golf Club in Denver, Colorado, in July 2002, which created a miracle of going downhill and being sucked into the hole cup.
No one witnessed the scene in person at the time, but the PGA office records that fellow players who played with him testified that the ball was in the hole cup. In addition, he is known to have set condor records at par-5 holes in the U.S. in 1962, the U.K. in 1995, and Australia in 2007.
6. “Ostrich”
Ostrich means ostrich, which can be achieved only by making a hole-in-one at the par-6 hole, but there has been no record so far.
7.”Phoenix”
It means phoenix, which means -7. It’s a score that’s impossible to realize in reality.
8. “Bogey”
It is called a case of over one stroke from the standard number of strokes, and it is said to have been derived from The Bogeyman, a popular song in the late 19th century.
In addition, it is called a double bogey if it exceeds two strokes in the standard number of strokes, a triple bogey if it exceeds three strokes, and a Quadruple bogey if it exceeds four strokes.
9. “Double Par”
Double par refers to double the standard number of pars. This is the case with six pars at three par holes and eight pars at four par holes. Amateur golfers do not record double-pie or higher scores for the sake of golf’s progress, but there is also a term used to refer to scores higher than that.
+5 is referred to as Quantuple, +6 is referred to as Sextuple, and +7 is referred to as Septuple, but scores above that are also calculated in professional or formal matches.
What’s interesting is that David Duvall, who once ranked No. 1 in the world, participated in the PGA Tour’s “The Open” in July 2019 and finished the hole in 14 strokes at the par-5 and 7 holes, recording a +9-type Nonuple bogey.